Establishing keen senses of both its locations and its heroes’ fates, "Place of Cool Waters" follows two men on coming-of-age odysseys. Two stories converge in Ndirangu Githaiga’s novel "Place of Cool Waters" as two young men gather... Read More

Kiki Petrosino collects poetic, honest, philosophical vignettes in "Bright", an investigation into the etymology of the term for lightness as it pertains to the effects of colorism and the unintended consequences of inhabiting a body... Read More

In Louise Hawes’s sweet coming-of-age story "Big Rig", a girl just knows that she was born to be a trucker. Hazel, whose trucker handle is “Hazmat,” grew up on the road, hauling loads cross-country with her father in their big rig.... Read More

Truth spoken by poets matters more simply because the poet settles for nothing but the truth, so help her Veritas, daughter of Saturn. Such vigilance is arduous, and as a queer, Indigenous Hawaiian, No’u Revilla is as singular a voice... Read More

Giggle and groan as Rabbi Ruben works to repair his aging synagogue in creative, if not wholly effective, ways—patching leaks with challah dough and creaking loudly through a library while a woman studies the Torah, for example. This... Read More

In Brielle D. Porter’s novel "Jester", a girl’s ambition to possess real magic and outrun her family’s past threatens to consume her. Terraca’s city of Oasis is glutted with magic, and its many magicians are all competing to be... Read More

A modern fable and adventure story, Sam Thompson’s "Wolfstongue" follows a boy into a foxes’ underground city in order to save the last wolves from enslavement. Here, anthropomorphized animals and pen-and-ink drawings illuminate the... Read More

Deep into twilight, imaginative Bo is enjoying himself too much to want to wind down and get ready for sleep. His mother makes him dinner and draws a bath; they exchange thoughts about all the ways that other animals doze. Oh-oh!: here... Read More